Belaya Glina, Krasnodar Krai

Belaya Glina (Russian Белая Глина ) is a village in the Krasnodar (Russia) region with 17,320 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The place is located in the northeastern Kuban in the Caucasus foothills, about 190 line kilometers northeast of the region administrative center of Krasnodar near the river Rassypnaja, in the little below the Mekleta opens. The Rassypnaja is a tributary of the Manytsch Creek Jegorlyk.

Belaya Glina is the administrative center of the homonymous Belaya Glina Rajons ( Beloglinski ). Still belongs to the rural settlement Belaya Glina the small settlement at ten kilometers north-west, directly on the border railway station in Rostov Oblast Mekleta.

History

The town was founded in 1820 by evacuees from the government of Voronezh. The place name is in Russian for White clay, after to be found in the area Kaolinitvorkommen.

First, the place belonged to the province of Stavropol, in the extreme north-west he was. On July 2, 1924 Belaya Glina was the center of a Rajons, which in 1937 became associated with the Krasnodar region in the context of administrative reform.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

There is a museum dedicated to the raion and local history. The town has a water park, the water park "Oasis".

Economy and infrastructure

In Belaya Glina as the center of an agricultural area with cultivation of cereals and industrial crops and livestock, there are companies in the food industry and the construction industry. In place of the regional fuel supplier Amethyst is a resident of the plans there for the 2010 opening of a small oil refinery.

The village lies on the railway line opened in 1897 Volgograd - Salsk - Tikhoretskaya ( station name Beloglinskaja; kilometer 466 ), which is operated on this section of the North Caucasian railway. Along the railway line and a regional road Tikhoretsk on the highway M29 runs after Salsk in the neighboring Rostov Oblast.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Viktor Anpilov (* 1945), politician, leader of the Movement An automatic plant Russia ( Rossiya Trudovaya )
• Anatoli Ljapidewski (1908-1983), Major General, flyers ( one of the first heroes of the Soviet Union, awarded in 1934 for the rescue of the crew Tscheljuskin )